Fox News comes out for Alameda’s schools
At the end of last week, Bill O’Reilly sat down with Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly to discuss the Alameda school “Lesson 9″ issue. What we heard was, well, almost unbelievable. Check it out:
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Covering the issues that relate mostly to the AUSD recall but also to the lawsuit that has been filed against AUSD, Kelly and O’Reilly quickly move through all the key points. The first amazing comment by Megyn Kelly was her admission that referring to LGBT as a “lifestyle” is offensive. I don’t think I need to go too far into how Fox tends to add the word lifestyle after the word gay or lesbian whenever it can, so to hear one of its anchors acknowledge that it’s offensive to do so was interesting.
When asked if this was indoctrination, Kelly was clear: “no”
When discussing the quote controversial” book Tango Makes Three, Kelly dismisses the book as not “translateable.” So Tango Makes Three is meaningless in teaching kids about different types of family structures that exist in the human world, which would make it innocuous to everyone. (I wonder if someone should just file a lawsuit demanding that all books that anthropomorphize animals be pulled from schools. First up, Stuart Little, I mean he comes from a broken home. Kids might learn that not all families live happily ever after with two parents. And you know where that leads…..divorce.)
O’Reilly and Kelly then acknowledge that anti-bullying lessons should include LGBT tolerance. As long as they have blanket coverage for everyone, which AUSD does. Wow, so even Fox News gets it.
Disclosure: I am directly working on the anti-recall campaign, though my blog posts are my own.
Updated: 2:52 to correct for major voice recognition errors that made sentences more unreadable than usual.
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M.I.
September 25th, 2009 at 8:54 am
John,
It is amazing how fast information travels and how things morph.
I do not watch the TV comedy “Parks and Rec”, but I heard the main actress interviewed about the last episode., where as the Park and Rec director ( a park with a zoo I guess?) she decides to have a marriage ceremony for two penguins but has no clue they are same sex. A representative of a family group comes and explains how that threatens “traditional marriage” and says she must ask for the director’s resignation.
I could not help but think that when our story hit the Sunday LA Times editorial that it was subsumed by the grist mill of screen writers and spit back out at us in this comedy plot. By extension the recall proponents are now laughing stock for national consumption.
Brian Harris
September 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I find it funny that when they first covered the issue, FOX had a very anti curriculum tone. Now they seem to be pro curriculum. Perhaps there is a shred of fairness and balance in the network. At least until Glenn Beck weighs in. That would be hilarious!